Greg McElroy’s Top 10 takeaways from Week 8 | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

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Football, Sports

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🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Outside of Billy Napier getting fired there were some BIG takeaways from an incredible weekend where 9 AP ranked teams lost. Georgia pulled out a gutsy win over Ole Miss, Notre Dame ran all over USC, Alabama continues to be clutch, Vanderbilt and Indiana continue to change the narrative, and with Miami and Texas Tech losing, the ACC and BIG 12 are up for grabs. Plus, what happened to Florida State, and is this the most interesting Heisman race in years? McElroy gives you all the answers in his week 8 takeaways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	Did this not feel like a recipe that was very familiar to what we saw last year when Notre
0:36.5	Dame got hot, down the stretch of the regular
0:39.0	season and carried them all the way through to the national championship. It was physical,
0:43.6	it was opportunistic, and it required all three phases of the game.
0:53.2	Hello and welcome in. It's always college football. It is our Sunday PM edition. We love this show because we give you kind of our rapid fire watching the games on TV reaction on Sunday mornings. And then we basically dive in and we dive all the way in.
1:11.0	We watch the tape back.
1:12.8	We make some observations.
1:14.6	We draw some conclusions.
1:16.2	And we give you here on Sunday evening, we give you our top 10 takeaways.
1:21.1	And there's a bunch of good ones from this past week at a lot of quality matchups, a lot of big upsets, a lot of big teams there ranked that went down.
1:29.9	We saw nine teams in the AP top 25 fall.
1:32.7	We saw four in the top 10 fall.
1:34.8	So it was a dramatic day with a lot of shakeup.
1:37.8	And I do believe when looking at some of these matchups, some of these games, there were
1:42.4	some teams that were exposed in some areas.
1:45.2	Even in victory, there was a little bit of exposure.
1:48.5	But at the same time, everybody up to this point, with the exception of Ohio State in Indiana,
1:55.1	has at one point or another been exposed.
1:57.3	The world of college football, I've never seen it this wide open. I'm just going to be
2:01.6	honest with you. And I'm not being a prisoner of the moment. Games right now are coming down to
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